M.I.A. Flips Off Twilight, Lady Gaga

Beef is back.

In an interview in the new issue of NME (left), M.I.A. reveals that she turned down an opportunity to record a song for a Twilight movie, saying, "They asked me-- luckily Jimmy [Iovine, boss at M.I.A.'s label Interscope] had beef with the Twilight people, so he stepped in and told them to fuck off." (Last year's Twilight: New Moon soundtrack featured people like Thom Yorke, Grizzly Bear, and Lykki Li.) When it comes to film, M.I.A. only fucks with Best Picture winners and, um, trailers for pot movies, apparently. (Via MTV.)

The pop rebel also had some choice words for Lady Gaga in the interview: "People say we're similar, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly the same. None of her music's reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is. She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza disco, you know? She's not progressive, but she's a good mimic. She sounds more like me than I fucking do!"